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A. MGCREADY & G. S. ALSHOUSE.

CLOTHES POUNDBR. 'No.. 289,292. I Patented Nov. 27, I888.

WITNESSES: [NVENTORJ ATTORNEYJ',

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ANDREW MOGREADY AND CYRUS S. ALSHOUSE, OF BANKSVILLE, PA.

CLOTHES-POUNDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters, Patent No. 289,292, dated November 27, 1883.

Application filed June 26, 1883. (No model.)

and CYRUS s. ALSHOUSE, ofBanksville, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylva nia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pounders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the invention,

which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, in which the figure is a vertical section of the pounder.

This invention relates to that class of devices for washing known as clothes-pounders, designed to be used on top of the contents of an ordinary wash-tub.

Our invention consists in the peculiar formation and arrangement hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The general character of our clothes-pounder is that of two or more nested cones or i'rusta inverted to present their mouths to the clothes, the whole adapted to a suitable handle. To the handle-socket A we fit and solder the cone B, having the diaphragm a set into it and soldered, the lower end of socket A being also soldered to diaphragm a. To the under side of the diaphragm a we solder the truncated cone (7, across whose interior again is soldered the diaphragm b, and to this in like manner we attach the inner truncated cone, D, having diaphragm c. The diaphragms a b carepreferablyconcaved, as shown, and serveto strong- 1y brace the cones in operation. The lower The material best adapted to the purpose is tin-plate, which can be readily shaped and united by soldering. The exposed edges will generally be wired in the way well known to those skilled in the trade.

The device is operated by giving it a vertical or pumping movement. The clothes are thus'worked up and down, and the conesact with a'suctional effect on the suds-water, causing it to circulate forciby among and through the clothes. perforations in the two inner cones, which, in the action, become sources of diverse sprays or jets for the suds-water, and, at times,'for air. The clothes are in this manner quickly and thoroughly washed with but little labor. The apparatus is cheap and extremely simple in form and in no Way liable to get out of order. Should any portion break, an ordinary tinsmith can repair it for a trifling cost, as no further skill need be called for. The socket A is made either straight or tapering. I11 the latter case the handle is prevented from striking diaphragm a.

We claim as our invention The clolhes-pounder consisting of the socket and A, cones B, G, and D, respectively provided with the diaphragms a b 0. one or both cones, b 0, having perforations e, substantially as de' scribed.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own we have hereto affixed our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

ANDREW MCCREADY. CYRUS S. ALSHOUSE. WVitnesses:

T. J. PATTERSON, J. E. DAVIS.

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